Cedar traditionally has been used as medicine for protection, so it is a wonderful addition to your smudge ceremony if you are feeling unsafe, misunderstood, or under threat or attack of something on any level. Offering your blessings to the transformation of negative energies, invoking the ancient wise, cedar tree wisdom. Use this sacred medicine to cleanse your home or apartment when first moving in. Great house warming gift for others paired with a nice shell and smudging feather! Focus on inviting unwanted spirits to leave the space, to move out like the previous tenants did. Intend that the cedar cast a high vibration in the very air of your new place offering protecting for the people that live there and visit you.
The cedar tree has been revered for its spiritual significance for thousands of years. Its wood was used for the doors of sacred temples and burned in cleansing ceremonies for purification. Cedar has a long history of use in indigenous sweat lodge ceremonies and the tree was thought to house important gods and to be an entrance to higher spiritual realms.
Cedar is also one of the four sacred plants of the indigenous American Medicine Wheel and represents the Southern direction. The other plants contained in the Medicine Wheel are: White Sage representing the West, Sweetgrass representing the North, and Tobacco representing the East.
